HoPiKo: The Game Review

    Have you ever wanted to save your gaming console from a game-breaking virus? Well, you’re in luck, because with the new game, HoPiKo, your main goal is to complete each level or stage by crashing into parts of a “Evil Nanobyte” to drive it out of the console. HoPiKo, developed by Laser Dog Games and published by Merge Games LTD, is a Platformer game where you play as one of the HoPiKo to defeat the virus to save the gaming console, as well as your family…because that’s important too, right? HoPiKo is currently available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. In the Xbox One Store, you can buy a copy of HoPiKo for $6.99(£5.59). The price of HoPiKo on other platforms may vary.

    Right here at the beginning, I am going to admit, I’m not much of a fan of platformer games, but you may catch me playing them from time to time. HoPiKo was actually one of the few platformer games that actually spark my interest, actually, it may be the only platformer game that sparks my interest. Anyways, during my gameplay time of HoPiKo, the ultra-short tutorial showed me that there wasn’t too much content in the game to be learned, unlike Reus, which I recently reviewed. After the tutorial, I started the main gameplay. To be honest, while the game itself is fun, the levels seemed almost too easy to beat, and some of the levels later in the game required little-to-no strategy, which is odd, because in a game like HoPiKo, you’d expect the levels to get gradually more difficult as you progress through the game, not easier.
 

   Do you like the retro feel of games, or the new-age graphics that have recently surfaced, maybe both? HoPiKo does not stick with the latest trend of new-age graphics. HoPiKo rocks the 1980’s and early 90s retro graphics, which is fit for a game of this caliber. Due to the graphics that HoPiKo uses, you can tell that this game is more than likely to be popular with the older generation of gamers that are around today. Also, unlike many new games, HoPiKo has almost no bugs or glitches, or at least none that I could personally point out.

    If there was one thing that bothered me with HoPiKo, it was the actual length of the game. HoPiKo includes over 100 levels that break-up into 5 stages per level. This may sound long, but given the right skill-level and amount of time, and this game can be fully completed in under 2 hours. During my time playing, I’ve almost fully beat the game. This makes me hope that the developers of HoPiKo have an idea for a possible DLC/Update, or even a sequel that will add more levels to the game. Paid or Free, more content for HoPiKo would be amazing.

    Although I mentioned that this game would be fantastic for the older generations of gamers, that doesn’t mean it can’t be for kids. HoPiKo received an “Everyone” rating by the ESRB, which means if you want your kids to experience what it felt like to play video games in the 80s and 90s, this game is perfectly safe for them to play.

A Copy of this game was provided for this Review by the Developer/Publisher.